In this paper we show how agent data integrity protections can be provided in SAgent, which is a security framework designed for comprehensive protection of mobile agents in JADE. While SAgent was designed for comprehensive security protocols with different design and interaction criteria, we show how efficient integrity-only protections can be seamlessly integrated into SAgent. In situations where the more challenging problem of working with secret data on remote hosts is not needed, these integrity protection techniques provide significantly better performance than the comprehensive protections, as we demonstrate through a series of experiments.

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